Poverty & Homelessness

'Orwell was the great moral force of his age' SpectatorYou can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business.When he was a struggling writer in his twenties, George Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest...

The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters. And the problem of the American city is epitomized in public space. Mean Streets offers, in a single,...

Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience reveals untold stories from people who have been left out of the media narrative and left behind by government policy. Featuring the work of accomplished documentary photographers, the book presents...

Often called the 'Jungle', the refugee camp near Calais in Northern France epitomises for many the suffering, uncertainty and violence which characterises the situation of refugees in Europe today. But the media soundbites we hear ignore the voices of...

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues...

'The definitive account of the history of poverty finance' - Susanne Soederberg Finance, mobile and digital technologies - or 'fintech' - are being heralded in the world of development by the likes of the IMF and World Bank as a silver bullet in the...

FROM THE MAN BOOKER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF HARVEST'The Melody takes its place among his finest [novels] . . . an ecological fable for modern times' Guardian'Seductively atmospheric . . . deeply moving' Daily Mail'Brilliant' ObserverAlfred Busi, famed in...

In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760645373Author Alan KohlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Black Inc.Publisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 201gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 129mm * 16mm

Women and Poverty analyzes the social and structural factors that contribute to, and legitimize, class inequity and women's poverty. In doing so, the book provides a unique documentation of women's experiences of poverty and classism at the individual...

A revolutionary approach to poverty that takes human irrationality into account-and unlocks the mystery of making philanthropic spending really work. American individuals and institutions spent billions of dollars to ease global poverty and accomplished...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060878849Author William T. VollmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Why are houses so expensive? Is our banking system going to collapse again? Should we be worried that robots are going to take all our jobs? And just what exactly is the economy anyway? Economists and politicians would have you believe it is a rarified...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906978402Author Barbara FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Hobnob PressPublisher Hobnob PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955963254Author Robert AshtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Turnpike PressPublisher Turnpike PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm *...

A Washington Post bestseller While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently undermining our best efforts to help the poor. It is a plague of everyday violence. Beneath the...

Build to Rent (BTR) is a form of residential tenure which first emerged in the United States, where it is known as Multifamily Housing. While it has been a mature asset in the United States for over a decade, it is relatively new to the UK and Ireland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375713286Author Thomas Homer-DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Drawing on empirical research with the UK's two largest charitable food organisations, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last 15 years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity. As the welfare state withdraws,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247328Author Ken CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearFifty years after Michael Harrington published his ground-breaking book The Other America , in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a...

Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms and this...

"Fluffy was covered all over in thick, black fur and he was - well - fluffy ..."; Fluffy the cat likes the quiet life. Unfortunately, he has a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles who love to squabble and fight and sing. And he is never allowed indoors,...

14 Nights is a timely and essential conversation about how we understand homelessness in the UK. Compiled by The Archer Project - a charity based in Sheffield who have been providing support for the homeless community for over 30 years - the book is...

To examine government policy and state practice on housing, welfare, mental health, disability, prisons or immigration is to come face-to-face with the harsh realities of the 'punitive state'. But state violence and corporate harm always meet with...

Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundingsCallous Objects unearths cases in which cities push homeless people out of public spaces through a combination of policy and strategic design. Robert Rosenberger examines such commonplace devices...

From Venezuelan reporter Paula Ramon comes a powerful memoir about one woman's complicated relationship with her family as her beloved homeland collapses into ruin. In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela spiraled into a dire state of economic...

After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. There, the vending machines were stocked with painkillers, and the staff turnover...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596053632Author Alexis de TocquevilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United StatesTent City 3 provides Seattle's unhoused people with a place to create and sustain not just shelter but a home. In 2000 it became one of the first organized, peer-operated tent encampments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979875434Author Fran FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Fjfisher PublishingPublisher Fjfisher PublishingWeight(grams) 336g

The author raises some fundamental questions about the distribution of wealth. Why is it that those who produce the wealth, the workers, receive only a small portion of what they have produced? Why are there so many unemployed and so cannot provide for...

This absorbing book explores all aspects of life in that feared institution, the workhouse. From the staff who lived and worked there to the poor souls kept in the medical wing, it reveals a side of Basingstoke that has long since been forgotten. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951724160Author Christian LivermoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Indie Blue Publishing LLCPublisher Indie Blue Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

This book is about the slow violence of poverty. Lou-Marie Kruger's clinical and research encounters in the Dwarsrivier Valley attempt to give an account of the complex realities and lived experiences of low-income mothers in post-apartheid South Africa...

Subjective measures are increasingly included among the set of assessment tools for poverty used by countries. Objective poverty measures alone are not sufficient to understand the complexity of poverty. Subjective measures can therefore complement them...

This acclaimed book powerfully depicts a side of the welfare experience rarely seen, dispelling the myth that only an urban underclass-the center of most policy debate-struggles on welfare. Rank's juxtaposition of numbers and faces demonstrates that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886972764Author Earl H LopezFormat HardbackImprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 405g

Lessons from Eviction Court goes behind the disturbing statistics of evictions and homelessness to provide the first-hand experience of a lawyer who is in eviction court each week, standing alongside people who are losing their homes. Fran Quigley...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807021477Author Alison OwingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press